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The man’s stepson visited the home because he had neither seen nor heard from Sampson since Wednesday of this week. A source close to the household informed the Chronicle that the man had last been seen on Wednesday when he had left his home under the pretext of going to transact business in the city, but had ended up at the Norton Street home of another woman with whom he had had an affair.
Sampson had left the Lamaha Springs home at approximately 10 hours on Wednesday morning, and had returned crying one hour later. When his reputed wife had enquired what the matter was, he had related that he had ended up in the home of the other woman on Norton Street and her male partner had come home and found him and had dealt him a severe thrashing.
The man’s reputed wife had become annoyed and had informed him that she was packing up her things to return to her West Berbice home, since the man had promised her that he was no longer seeing the woman but his latest story of being beaten had told otherwise. The reputed wife had then obtained a bus fare from a neighbour and had set out to her home town, exiting the community via a back entrance.
However, as the woman was getting her things together to move out of the home, Sampson had left his home again, vowing that the fight was not over, and that was the last time he had been seen alive.
This publication was informed that after persons in the area had heard about what had befallen Sampson, they had been waiting to make fun of the situation, but that wait was in vain, since he had never again been seen alive.
A neighbour said she had seen the house in darkness on Wednesday night, but had not thought anything of it since nobody had seen the man return home.
The man’s stepson had also visited the home on Wednesday night, but had been unable to enter because the home had been locked and he was not aware that his stepfather might have been in the house. After calling for Sampson for several minutes without receiving answer, the stepson had left the premises.
He, like persons in the area, had been of the view that the man was not at home because the house was in darkness.
There had been no contact with Sampson for the entire Thursday, and when the stepson telephoned his mother, she informed him that she was back in Berbice.
On Friday morning, the stepson revisited Sampson’s home and found the same situation he had encountered on Wednesday, so he decided to kick in the door, only to make the gruesome discovery of his stepfather’s lifeless body lying on his bed.
The stepson raised an alarm, and the police were summoned.
The police are not ruling out foul play in their investigations. One neighbour told the Guyana Chronicle that she only knew of the discovery of her neighbour’s body when she awoke yesterday morning and was informed of same by another neighbour. She recalled hearing the comment “Girl, Sandy’s gone with Sampson”.
Sampson had been married but had divorced his wife some years ago. His wife currently resides with their ten-year-old daughter in Trinidad and Tobago.
One resident of the community said that if Sampson had told them where the man who assaulted him lived, this case would have been easily solved. They are of the view that Sampson might have been dead in his home since Wednesday night, and the result may have been from the beating he had sustained at the hands of the man in question.
